One of the loudest buzzwords in current science politics is interdisciplinarity. Interdisciplinary research requires that multidisciplinary teams assemble and create a common language and framework for discovery and innovation. This offers huge benefits, but how easy is it in practice? Apart from attitudinal resistance, differing research methods, a lack of funding and dissemination possibilities, communication barriers among the different disciplines often puts a spanner in the works. In this salon three scientists will share their successes and failures in interdisciplinary collaboration.

Program:

19:30 - Welcome

19:35 - Lecture by Paul Halstead (The University of Sheffield):'Food production and diet in the Mediterranean longue durée: challenges of, and lessons from, blending humanities, natural sciences and social sciences'